182 quotes found
“A CITY IS AS much a state of mind as a place—a set of perceptions of place. On the last train home to Mullaghbrack or Gortyfarnham or half a hundred other BallyBogMans, two farmers fall to reviewin...”
“...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...”
“It wasn’t Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasn’t any timeless malevolence behind it all, it...”
“We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and...”
“Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.”
“All around us, Karachi kept moving”
“It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never be easy to findsolitude . . . to find herself. Not in this city, where appearances were everythi...”
“It’s hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who’s a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our...”
“And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in ...”
“For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claw...”
“The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.”
“... civilization—a word that simply means "living in cities..."Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. “A History of the World In 6 Glasses.”
“He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of rooftops and the glitter of winter nights when home lights brownly wave beneath ...”
“When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.”
“One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.”
“My wife loves Europe but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.”
“This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.”
“My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away as long as I'm not enjoying it.”
“On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.”
“There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.”
